put markdown files on /tmp prevent notes recovery

[SamirSaidani]

When your computer crashes, all files on /tmp (usually a mem filesystem) are automatically cleaned after reboot.
If you were writing some notes at this moment, all your notes are lost.

One workaround is to allow another temporary directory, like $HOME/tmp and use vim recovery capabilities (vim -r) to recover your notes.

geeknote should allow at least to set another temporary directory, at best put all the markdown temporary files into .geeknote directory by default.

PS: I've just lost my half-page note :-/

[jeffkowalski]

This seems like an edge case that the program should not be expected to handle. System crashes seem a bit out of scope. That said, setting TMPDIR would be the effective and standard cure, correct?

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[SamirSaidani]

It looks like vim and libreoffice programmers handle this edge case, so it makes sense that geeknote handle this case too, since note editing is a core feature of geeknote. System crashes is a part of the user experience, and as such resilient software design should be considered by the programmer.
TMPDIR looks good for me, or at least using $HOME/.geeknote/ to save temporary note files for a quick patch. Thanks for this nice software !